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,102 Patented Mar. 25, 1890 UNITED V STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM T. EDDS, OF PEKIN, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR 'IO FRANCES E. VAN ATTA,OF SAME PLACE.

BARREL-WASHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,102, dated March25, 1890.

Application filed January 4, 1890. Serial No. 335,935- ,(No model) Toall whom it mag concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM T. Enos, a citizen of the United'States ofAmerica, residing at Pekin, in the county of Tazewell and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBarrel-WVashers, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to barrel-washers and it consists in an apparatusfor injectingsteam, hot water, and alum-wash into barrels and casks towash and purify the same.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of theapparatus; and Fig. 2, a vertical section showing theinjeotorpipe,nozzle, bung, and outlet-pipe.

A represents a hollow bung having a collar or flange a and orifices a atthe top and near the base and adapted to be inserted in. the bung-holeof the barrel.

Opening into the bung at thev bottom is a pipe B, communicating with adischarge-pipe C, hot-water pipe .D, and steam-pipe E, as shown in thedrawings.

Passing through the bung A and pipe B and concentric therewith is a pipeF, having a collar or flange f at its lower end adapted to close thepipe B at a point just below the discharge-pipe O and terminating at thetop in a nozzle G, having orifices g.

Opening into the hot-water pipe D is a pipe H, which conveys thealum-wash from asuitable tank.

(I is a valve in the hot-water pipe D, by which the flow of alum-Washand hot wateris regulated.

e is a valve in the steam-pipe, and h a valve in the alum-Wash pipe.

I represents a frame upon which the barrels rest. 7

In operation the barrel is placed in position upon the frame I, with thebung A projecting through the bung-hole, as shown in Fig. 1. The hotWater, alum-Wash, and steam being then admitted pass upward through thepipe F and nozzle G with suflicient force to thoroughly wash theinterior of the barrel, and, flowing out through the orifices a in thebung A, are carried off by the dischargepipe 0.

By means of the above described apparatus the hot Water, alum-wash, andsteam maybe injected either together or separately, and will thoroughlyclean the barrel and free it from all tannic acid and other impurematter, and by duplicating the parts the apparatus maybe arranged forthe simultaneous washing of any desired number of barrels.

I am aware that prior to myinvention barrelwvashers have been made withtwo concentric pipes, the inner pipe discharging water into thebarreland the outer pipe conducting it out. I therefore do not claimthis broadly as my invention; but

WVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the hollow bung A having orifices a, the pipe B,the nozzle G, having orifices g, and the pipe F, having a fiangef, ofthe outlet-pipe C, hot-water pipe D, alum-Wash pipe H, and steam-pipe E,arranged as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

W ILLIAM T. EDDS.

Witnesses:

SAM WEBB, DANIEL ORoURKE.

